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Gynocide vs Gendercide - What's the difference?

gynocide | gendercide | Hyponyms |

Gynocide is a hyponym of gendercide.


As nouns the difference between gynocide and gendercide

is that gynocide is the killing of women and girls, especially considered as a social phenomenon while gendercide is the killing of people because of their gender.

gynocide

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The killing of women and girls, especially considered as a social phenomenon.
  • *1976 , (Andrea Dworkin), Our Blood :
  • *:We find that millions upon millions of women have died as the victims of organized gynocide .
  • *1987 , Jane Caputi, The Age of Sex Crime , p. 95:
  • *:In the contemporary Age of Sex Crime, it is another traditional female scapegoat, the prostitute, who is the paradigmatic target of gynocide .
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    gendercide

    English

    (wikipedia gendercide)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The killing of people because of their gender.

    • Derived terms

    * gendercidal

    Hyponyms

    * femicide * gynocide